Commonwealth v. Kull

Appellant, Walter Kull, has appealed his non-jury convictions for murder of the third degree, carrying a firearm without a license and possession of an instrument of crime. He alleges insufficiency of the evidence to support the convictions and illegality of two separate sentences on the weapons offenses.

On October 17, 1976, Kull’s daughter and girl friends were sitting on Kull’s front porch when they were joined by five young men. In response to a loud conversation between Kull and his wife from inside the house, one of the group, Tom Hoffman, shouted obscene words as they were leaving. Kull…